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BT Claims Hyperlink Patent Ownership
News British Telecom believes it owns the US patent for the World Wide Web's hyperlink technology and has hired an intellectual property specialist to ensure it can commercialise the patent, in court if necessary.
[June 20, 2000, 9:51]
Date Set For BT Hyperlink Patent Case
News BT's court case against ISP Prodigy Communications over the hyperlink patent will begin on 11 February 2002 in New York. BT contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June 2000 asking them to buy a hyperlink licence.
[November 23, 2001, 13:55]
BT Sues Over Hyperlink Claim
News British Telecommunications (quote: BT) has taken a large US ISP to court over its patent for hyperlink technology. BT contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June asking them to buy a hyperlink licence.
[December 18, 2000, 12:41]
Create A Hyperlink
White Papers Microsoft Word creates a hyperlink (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a graphic that one clicks to go to a file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an intranet.
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
BT Faces More Shame In Hyperlink Row, Say Experts
News British Telecom believes it owns a 14 year US patent for the World Wide Web's hyperlink technology and has hired an intellectual property specialist to ensure it can commercialise the patent, in court if necessary.
[June 20, 2000, 11:50]
Early Ruling Close In BT Hyperlink Case
News BT's contentious claim that it owns the rights to the hyperlink is nearing a crucial stage in its journey through the US legal process. BT is claiming that a patent request it filed in 1976, and was granted in 1989, gives it ownership of the...
[March 11, 2002, 14:10]
BT Suffers Blow In Hyperlink Patent Case
News Before the case went to court, BT had contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June 2000 asking them to buy a hyperlink licence. BT suffered a blow in its bid to charge royalties for hyperlinks on Wednesday when the New...
[March 14, 2002, 16:57]
Ford Loses Hyperlink Battle
News Eastern Michigan District Court Judge Robert Cleland rejected claims that Ford's trademark was being violated by a hyperlink that pointed the domain name FuckedGeneralMotors.com at its own homepage. He dismissed the case on the basis that the...
[January 31, 2002, 13:42]
BT To Press Ahead On Hyperlink Case
News BT has insisted that it will not be put off by the bad publicity surrounding its attempts to claim that it owns the patent for the hyperlink. BT is suing US Internet Service Provider Prodigy Communications for unspecified damages, on the basis that...
[February 7, 2002, 16:50]
BT Faces More Shame In Hyperlink Row, Say Experts
Talkback How can BT own a patent on Hyperlinks when (if true) the discovery was made by a government employee as part of a nationalised postal service. All rights should revert to the Crown.
[November 24, 2004, 1:34]
BT Loses Hyperlink Patent Case
News BT had contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June 2000, asking them to buy a hyperlink licence -- and when they refused, the telco pursued Prodigy as a test case. The hyperlink patent -- properly known as the Sargent...
[August 23, 2002, 10:23]
Hypertext Categorization Using Hyperlink Patterns And Meta Data
White Papers Hypertext poses new text classification research challenges as hyperlinks, content of linked documents, and meta data about related web sites all provide richer sources of information for hypertext classification that are not available in...
[April 13, 2005, 3:00]
CHIME: Customizable Hyperlink Insertion And Maintenance Engine For Software Engineering Environments
White Papers Source code browsing is an important part of program comprehension. Browsers expose semantic and syntactic relationships (such as between object references and definitions) in GUI-accessible forms. These relationships are derived using tools which...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
BT's Hyperlink? Don't Believe The Hypertext
News BT's attempt to claim a patent on a hyperlink is just one of many bits of nostalgia which the corporation is trying to get credit for inventing. In fact, hypertext -- in the sense of texts linked together by context, rather than as linear narrative...
[June 20, 2000, 13:37]
Do What's Right: AltaVista Condemns BT Patent Claim
News British Telecommunications may believe it owns the rights to the hyperlink technology that connects billions of pages all across the Internet, but other Net heavyweights think it should be working for the Internet rather than trying to up its own...
[June 22, 2000, 10:51]
Amazing Webpage Emailer
Downloads Emailing a hyperlink (URL) may have sufficed when the Web was young and static. If you e-mail a hyperlink, it's anyone's guess what your recipient might see. But no longer. Welcome to today's Web: a rushing, dynamic force in which web pages do not...
[February 28, 2006, 17:21]
Linux Gurus Congratulate BT On Patent Nonsense
News A consortium of European Linux companies has congratulated BT for attempting to patent hyperlink technology in an open letter published today. We are impressed to learn that your company patented the principle of the hyperlink in the mid-70s when...
[June 22, 2000, 10:35]
Add A Return E-Mail Address Link To A Message
White Papers The user can include a hyperlink to a return e-mail address, such as mailto: someone@example.com, in a custom signature that one creates. A message recipient can click the return e-mail hyperlink to open a new message that is already addressed to...
[February 15, 2008, 0:02]
CoLT
Downloads CoLT adds two menu items to the browser's context menu, both of which are only visible when right-clicking a hyperlink. The Copy Link Text menu item copies a hyperlink's associated text to the clipboard, while the Copy Link Text and Location menu...
[September 26, 2007, 11:38]
Internet Grabber
Downloads Website hyperlink validating, website improvement. One button click website hyperlink analytical tool. Downloading websites with "Pause" functionality, HTML code highlighting. Detailed user friendly interface.
[November 26, 2007, 11:46]
